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See also: Appendix:Variations of "eni"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Enim.

Symbol

eni

  1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Enim.

Celtiberian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *en, derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én. Compare Scottish Gaelic an.

Preposition

eni

  1. in
  2. inside
    dekametinas datuz somei eni touzei
    he will give the tax inside of this territory

References

Prósper, Blanca M. 2002: «La gran inscripción rupestre celtibérica de Peñalba de Villastar. Una nueva interpretación», Palaeohispanica 2, pp. 213–226.

Chichewa

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàjɪ́nɪ́.

Pronunciation

Noun

ení class 2

  1. plural of mwini

Edo

Etymology

Cognate with Urhobo eni, Isoko eni, Yoruba erin, Igbo enyi, Igala éli, Olukumi erin. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Edoid *E-ni. See Proto-Yoruboid *é-lĩ for more detailed information on cognates. See Benue-Congo cognates, Ibibio eniin, Tee ni, Proto-Lower Cross River *é-nì:n, Proto-Ogoni *ǹnĩ, Westerman constructs a possible reconstruction to Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-ni-

Pronunciation

Noun

ení

  1. elephant
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Etulo

Noun

ēní

  1. water
    ḿ wēnî — I drink water
    ḿ wēnī — I drank water

References

  • Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [Term?] and Ottoman Turkish یكی (yeñi), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yaŋï. Compare Turkish yeni.

Pronunciation

Adjective

eni (comparative taa eni, superlative en eni)

  1. new

Antonyms

Derived terms

Isoko

Etymology

From Proto-Edoid *E-ni. Cognate with Urhobo eni, Edo ení, Yoruba erin, Igbo enyi, Igala éli.

Noun

eni (plural ini)

  1. elephant

Derived terms

References

  • E. O. Agbada et al, Vbuhrẹ Ụmụ́bọrá Isoko (Teach Yourself Isoko), first published 2008, revised edition 2017, page 33

Itsekiri

Etymology

Either borrowed from Urhobo eni or a native word that is a cognate with Urhobo eni, Edo ení, Igbo enyi, Igala éli, Olukumi erin, and Yoruba ẹrin in many cognate languages, this form was replaced by a form seen in Nupe dagba, Idoma adagba, Igala adagba. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *é-lĩ or Proto-Yoruboid *é-nĩ. See Benue-Congo cognates, Ibibio eniin, Tee ni, Proto-Lower Cross River *é-nì:n, Proto-Ogoni *ǹnĩ, Westerman constructs a possible reconstruction to Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-ni-, and also suggests that it probably is of the same root as the root for four, thereby being a distant Doublet of erin (elephant) and Doublet of ẹrẹn (four).

Pronunciation

Noun

eni

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: erin, iyẹmẹriko, yẹmẹriko
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Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu (“ghost, spirit of the dead”)

Noun

eni (indefinite enihmen)

  1. demon, ghost

Inflection

More information singular, plural ...

References

Pericú

Noun

eni

  1. water

References

  • Rosa Elba Rodríguez Tomp, Cautivos de dios: los cazadores-recolectores de Baja California (2002): Palabras utilizadas por los indigenas de la isla Espiritu Santo, consignadas por Esteban Carbonel en 1632: Ipiri: cuchillo. Unoa: "daca aquello". Boox [sic]: perla. Nacui: concha. Itaurigui: capitán. [...] Vocabulos de los indigenas de las islas de San José y Espiritu Santo registrados per Diego de Parra en 1683: Eni: agua. Boxo [sic]: perla. Aynu: pescado.
  • Atlas cultural de México: Lingüística (1988), page 31: El vocabulario pericú que ha logrado compilar León-Portilla es: ipiri “cuchillo”, booxo “perla”, nacui “concha”, eni “agua”, aynu “pescado”, miñicari “cielo”, uriuri “andar”, utere “sentarse”, unoa “dar”, itauriqui “jefe, capitán”.
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Pohnpeian

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu (“ghost, spirit of the dead”)

Noun

eni

  1. ghost

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly related to Albanian enjë (“yew”).

Pronunciation

Noun

eni m

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

  1. (botany) yew (Taxus baccata)

References

  • “eni”, in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda [Online Dictionary of the Sardinian Language and Culture] (in Sardinian, Italian, and English), Autonomous Region of Sardinia [Sardinian: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna]

Turkish

Noun

eni

  1. accusative singular of en
  2. third-person singular possessive of en

Urhobo

Etymology

Cognate with Isoko eni, Edo eni, Yoruba erin, Igbo enyi, Igala éli, Olukumi erin. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Edoid *E-ni. See Proto-Yoruboid *é-lĩ for more detailed information on cognates. See Benue-Congo cognates, Ibibio eniin, Tee ni, Proto-Lower Cross River *é-nì:n, Proto-Ogoni *ǹnĩ, Westerman constructs a possible reconstruction to Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-ni-

Pronunciation

Noun

eni

  1. elephant

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

eni

  1. soft mutation of geni

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yoruba

Alternative forms

  • èènì

Etymology 1

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    ènì

    1. bonus after a purchase
      Synonym: járá
      • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎, number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:
        Òní lẹ̀gbọ́n ọ̀la, ìrì wọ̀wọ̀ọ́ ṣẹ̀gbọ́n òjò; ibi ènì l'à á pa ọmọ-alákàràá sí.
        Today is the older sibling to tomorrow, just as heavy dews are the older siblings to the rain; the child seller of fried bean cake gets killed on the issue of a bonus (proverb on degrees and consequences))
    Derived terms
    • elénì (“the one that involves a bonus after a purchase”)

    Etymology 2

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      èní

      1. Lagos form of òní (“today”)
        Èní ni ọjọ́-ọjà
        Today is the market day.
      Derived terms

      Etymology 3

        Yoruba numbers (edit)
        10
         ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
            Cardinal: ọ̀kan, ení
            Counting: oókan
            Adjectival: kan, méní
            Ordinal: kìíní, kìn-ín-ní
            Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀kan
            Distributive: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan
            Collective: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan

        Proposed to be from Proto-Yoruboid *ínḭ́. Likely cognates with Igala ényẹ́ and Ifè ɛnɛ́.

        Pronunciation

        Numeral

        ení

        1. one
          Synonym: ọ̀kan
          Ení, èjì, ẹ̀ta, ẹ̀rin, àrún…
          one, two, three, four, five…
          • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting C. L. Adeoye, Àṣà àti Ìṣe Yoruba Ibadan‎, number LDC2008L03, 1979, page 56, Oxford University Press, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:
            Ení bí ení; èjì bí èjì; ẹ̀ta ǹ tagbá; ẹ̀rin wọ̀rọ̀kọ́; àrún ń gódó; ẹ̀fà ti èlè; bí ó ròó, bí ó ròó, èróo bàtá; mo já kẹ́sàn-án; gbangba lẹ̀wá
            One is like one; two is like two; three is like shooting at a calabash; four is like the twisted; five is like pounding a mortar; six is that of ability; as if it will sound a sound as if it will sound a sound; I plucked the ninth; ten is right in the open (lyric for teaching enumeration)
        Derived terms

        References

        • Awoyale, Yiwola (19 December 2008), Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎, number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN
        • Salem Ǒchála È̩jè̩bá (2016), A Grammar of Ígálâ, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria: The Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN), →ISBN
        • SIL International (2016), Dictionnaire Ifè‎ (in French)

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